Fox Corp., Murdoch Must Face Election Defamation Payout Suit (1)

Rupert Murdoch and other Fox Corp. senior leaders must face investor claims that they’re personally responsible for the economic fallout of false conspiracy theories Fox News aired about the 2020 election.

Fox lost its motion to dismiss the case, according to an opinion from Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster, of Delaware’s Chancery Court, finding that the investors sufficiently pleaded that Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch faces a “substantial likelihood” of liability for consciously causing or willfully allowing Fox News to broadcast defamatory content.

“That does not mean that the plaintiffs will prevail at trial. It rather recognizes that a plaintiff need ...